so you want a midfield with nedved - diego - camo and sissoko. good luck trying to get the ball off anyone. that's just too offensive. I may have exagerated, but if you put diego on the pitch, you surely have to change camo's behaviour. He just CANNOT cut inside the same way he did with a sisso - zanetti couple covering his ass. He'd literally step on diego's feet. And sissoko would definately need to get his long range passes right, otherwise we'd be doomed. With nedved it might be less of a problem, but nedved is anyway going to be replaced soon.
I'm just tired of people wanting to force diego into some formation. We're doing so well without a playmaker and without an attacking mid, why would anyone want to change that??? Look at milan, with their thousands of brasilian playmakers. They have kaka AND ronaldinho (whom i both rate at least on the same level as diego) and still they're system crashed against our line-up.
If i have to spend 20+m on diego and 'hope' everybody copes with the situation and changes so that the formation makes sense again then i'll pass, really, and i take the money and invest in a nedved-successor and some defense-reinforcement.
It's not that diego is a bad player or anything. He may be the world's best upcoming attacking mid. - but why do we have to change a winning team for anyone?
and to the real-thing; if they really do make that diego-vdv swap, i think it would be the best thing they could do. Another shitload of shirts sold!